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FoE Frustrated by Brataualung Forest Reserve Handback Delays
January 06, 2023
Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Friends of Gippsland Bush (FoGB) remain frustrated by the amount of time it is taking to get forest areas added to the Brataualung Forest Park in the Strzelecki...
Read More 1 Reaction Share“Slap on the Wrist” for company that killed forest in State Park by Herbicide Spray Drift
December 04, 2022
In June 2020, Friends of the Earth found a potential spray drift incident which impacted on a two kilometre native forest boundary of a pine plantation located in Holey Plains State Park. The impacted...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareMullungdung State Forest Continues to Surprise
September 22, 2022
Mullungdung State Forest located north east of the town of Yarram, continues to surprise us in terms of potential koala numbers. Thanks to Pool of Dreams and donors through our June 2022 fundraising appeal...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareA Koalas Perspective on National Threatened Species Day
September 12, 2022
Kranky the koala commemorated National Threatened Species Day (7/9) by rallying and walking in solidarity for our country's declining state of environment with comrades to parliament steps. I as Kranky the koala tried to...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareGippsland Flora and Fauna Reserve now a Motocross Circuit
August 19, 2022
Friends of the Earth today expressed concerns about illegal and unregulated Motocross activities occurring in the Mullungdung Flora and Fauna Reserve, located ~20km north east of Yarram. Friends of the Earth researcher Anthony Amis...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareWildlife in Victorian National Parks has zero protection from state sanctioned burn offs
July 17, 2022
On May 28 2022, Friends of the Earth revealed that a number of koalas had been killed at Mount Richmond National Park in Victoria’s south west during a burn off carried out by the...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareKoala Citizen Scientists are No Longer Strangers
July 06, 2022
Who would have thought you could find fifteen people prepared to rise early on a wintery Sunday morning, travel far from home and scratch around the wet undergrowth of a little-known forest in South...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareKoalas Incinerated in National Park Burn Off
May 28, 2022
Friends of the Earth (FoE) have been alarmed by reports that at least 2 koalas have been incinerated in a "planned" State Government burn inside Mount Richmond National Park in south western Victoria. 2...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareGreens MP puts Victorian Environment Minister in Hot Seat over Strzelecki Koala
May 07, 2022
Greens MP Ellen Sandell this week asked the Victorian Environment Minister, Lily D'Ambrosio to support FoE's nomination for the Strzelecki koala to be listed under the Federal EPBC Act. The Minister was in the...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareKranky the Strzelecki Koala Brings Love to Strawberry Fields
April 21, 2022
Kranky the Koala joined by members of Friends of the Earth Melbourne journeyed up to Tocumwal to host a workshop at Strawberry Fields festival on the Dungala/Murray River amongst the river red gums on...
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